Hello and welcome to the Cultural Peeps Podcast. My name is Iain Wheeldon and I’m a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University.

This Podcast series is part of an ongoing project which explores different careers across the cultural sectors.

I really want this series to do three things;

The first aim is to help people understand the huge range of ever-changing job profiles that now exist across these complex and interconnected sectors.

The second is aim is to help people interpret job titles in the context of different venues and organisations – often, jobs with the same title can be radically different depending on the organisation.

The third aim is to help listeners understand that the people that make up any field of work are all human and are ultimately making human decisions, and that in turn plays a significant part in their unfolding careers and decision making processes.